Beginners Guide To Cyrto Currency Minning

OK this like all my help and reviews will be short and to the point. I don't like all the waste of foo foo stuff! LOL Next I'm not an expert but I have been mining, testing, reading and researching just for this post for about a month.

There are so many ways to mine crypto-currency it gets super confusing so I will list the easiest ways for a beginner. You can mine in your browser, with a phone (not iphones they only have one cpu and most no gpu's), tablet, laptop, desktop... Will you make any money? Well probably not unless you have free electricity. If you have solar and your electric company doesn't steal your kwh's (SCE says 500kwh's per month but the solar company says 1500 to 1600kwh's per month) you can mine a few hours a day for free.

Next you want to mine in LARGE mining pools. Working as a group you have a much chance of finding and completing jobs! One of the reasons I really like Minergate XMR Monero Pool can be as high as 74,000 miners!

I will start with the easiest GUI application Minergate it has some bad reviews mostly found on that not a search engine google. But it has the largest pools, the easiest getting started GUI.I think 99% of the complaints are from people that either use google lol or just don't do enough research. The account is easy to setup and free. They have a chat box on the main page for help as long as you ask something that isn't in the FAQ's right at the top of the page! Then you may get a smart hmm reply. :) With the amount of users of that site I just can't see how they are ripping people off.

Minergate also has it's own console miner just for CPU mining. But Minergate works with a whole bunch of other console miners. The instructions on how to use them is a little sparse but I will try to list that here. The difference between the GUI & Console miners really depends on the cards you're using. I saw the biggest difference in the Claymore console miner on the RX560 video cards. It will be on the list under the card performance. (Yes this is going to be a very long post!)Claymore AMD Console Miner.GPU0 is your first card, it will list the temp & fan speed about every 30 seconds or so and your hash rate per card when it contacts the mining pool. You can always look in your dashboard on Minergate just remember IT'S NOT IN REAL TIME.

There are so many thing to go over to get started if you want to give it a try.1.) Sign-up where ever you want to mine.2.) Update all your drivers to the newest version.3.) Download which ever miner you want to use there are lots of them just make sure it's legit. (I really suggest minergate for any beginner)4.) Make sure you keep your system COOL mining will over heat it and cook it if you're not careful.5.) Download EVGA Precision if you have a EVGA video card. (EVGA's are the fastest miners) Or MSI Afterburner Afterburner works on every video card Nvidia or AMD I really like this one for mining. 6.) If you went with the minergate GUI, run the benchmark it will tell you how your system stacks up and what's the best coin for you to mine. Remembe any miner you download will get detected as a VIRUS! LOL Anything running script on windows besides windows windows thinks is a virus. You won't have those problems in Linux. If you're using Kaspersky Pro it's not a problem. It gives you a warning saying this could be legitimate software but is acting suspicious. Then you have the choice to delete and block or add an exception. And the exception on Kaspersky works! If you are using AVG, Avast or Panda Pro even after you say "IT'S SAFE INSTALL IT" they will block the install and need to be disabled to finish the install.

Some problems you may have right in the start.1.) You can only mine certain coins with lower than 4 gig video memory. It will give you a low memory warning or just won't start.2.) You click Minergate and it starts and just stops. Restart it it should work the second time. If it still does the same thing? Make sure you have the right version Winx64 8.1 (April 4 2018) LEGACY for older video cards, Non Legacy for 10.xxx cards. Then re-install and try it again. The only lI have had is on two Linux computers running really old hardware 8.0 and 8.1 start, click anything it closes. The third Linux computer all newer hardware has no problems. So I will be switching those two to console miners. 3.) When and if you mine with your GPU (video card) you pretty much won't be able to use your computer.4.) If you have a 4 core with HT (Hyper Threading) you will have 8 CPU's but you should never mine with all 8.

Some terms you are going to see mining:ROI - "Is Return On Investment" (The more you spend the faster you get it back low end $3,500 rig)PPS - "Pay per share" (You are paid for the precentage of work you complete)PPLNS - "Pay Per Last N Shares"

Next you will need to choose how to get paid. PPS "Pay Per Share" you get paid for your the part you did unless you are running a 24/7 mining rig this is most likely best for you. Or PPLNS "Pay Per Last N Shares" some coins only use PPLNS. PPLNS has less commission and will in the long run earn more money. But again you need to mine 24/7 if you stop and start, stop and start you will end up with a bunch of bad shares. So you will have worked for free!

WalletsAlmost every coin has their own wallet. Then there are wallets that you can download your coins to. Lots of software wallets and some hardware wallets.Software Wallets:Free Wallet https://freewallet.org Up side it's free and minergate doesn't charge to download to it. Downside it's only on a google phone or iphone! LOL You may be begging to get your hard earned coin stolen.EXODUS https://www.exodus.io I like this but I'm using a hardware wallet because of the security.I'm using more of this wallet liking it more everyday! I like one feature the most I can exchange coinswithin the wallet!Ethereum https://www.ethereum.orgA list of almost every wallet out there. https://www.cryptocompare.com/wallets/#/overview